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different frequencies and are manifested in the form of light, colour or sound. Colour is light wave of frequency number 49. Sound too is a light wave of a different frequency. Colour and sound are thus not different. Colours can be heard and sound can be seen. The instrument to hear colour is called aurotrol. By adjusting its frequencies we can begin to see sound and hear colour. These objects that seem so different from each other now become the same. Our senses are receptive to different things. The eyes see, the ears listen, the nose smells, the tongue tastes and the skin feels touch. This is a very gross division. If we look at it from its subtler aspects then the work of the eye would be not just to see but also to listen, to smell and even to taste. The tongue cannot just taste it can listen too.
Kashyap Kaumarbhritya
Acharya Kashyap Kaumarbhritya was a wellknown Ayurvedic doctor. He has written: “Just as we have two hands, we have two tongues also. It is divided into two parts. One part of the tongue tastes and the other, listens. He says the ears do not listen. It only receives sound, it is receptive. It is the tool
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